Chapter 37 4 Chain Reaction

Li Yong knew very well in his heart that he had lost.

He lost this battle so confusingly, but he was so complete. The expression on Li Yong's face couldn't tell whether it was a bitter cry or a self-deprecating smile, it was a completely distorted face.

"My lord! Hurry up and break through, and escort you out! The guards shouted loudly.

"Shut up! As a general, should you abandon your own soldiers? Li Yong roared angrily. As a military general, he could not tolerate this shame. Unfortunately, the guard could no longer hear his roar, and a stone hit him in the head, and the flying brain sprayed Li Yong's face.

Li Yong jumped off the horse, touched his horse's nose, and let it find its own way. But the horse refused to leave its master, and no matter how Li Yong whipped it, the horse still stubbornly stayed where it was and refused to go. Li Yong threw away the horsewhip and laughed miserably: "Do you want to fight side by side with me to the end?" Well, let's work together again. ”

After saying that, Li Yong flew on his horse again, picked up the spear inserted in the ground, and shouted to his subordinates who were already in chaos: "This is the place of death!" Follow me if you want to live! Let's kill it! ”

At Li Yong's call, about a hundred soldiers finally followed. The others either didn't hear Li Yong's shouting, or they were so injured that they couldn't even stand up.

The attack of the Tiger Guard Battalion was suddenly counterattacked, and the momentary discomfort gave Li Yong an excellent opportunity, he quickly broke into the enemy's array and struggled to advance, with his strong martial arts, even the cavalry in the Tiger Guard Battalion was not his opponent, not to mention that most of the cavalry were not subordinate to the Tiger Guard Battalion. Therefore, the troops at this point were in great confusion.

Li Yong rushed all the way, not realizing at all that there were only a dozen or so escort cavalry left behind him. The rest of the infantry had all been killed in the chaos. At this time, one person and one rider rushed in front of him, and Li Yong watched intently. The person who came was none other than Gao Dingbian, the commander of the Tiger Guard Battalion.

In the last war, Li Yong once fought against Gao Dingbian, and the two failed to distinguish the winner at that time. However, Li Yong understands that the opponent in front of him is a fierce opponent, and it may not be so easy to get rid of him. Since this is the case, the only way to kill this person is to use his own strength, Li Yong did not answer at the moment, and directly stabbed Gao Dingbian with a gun.

As soon as the two sides fought, Li Yong was taken aback, in less than a year, Gao Dingbian's strength had made such a leap, and the marksmanship used in his hands was much more powerful than before! Of course, he didn't know that Gao Dingbian got the true biography of his uncle Lu Qinghan when he returned to China to quell the rebellion, and the strength of this set of marksmanship handed down by Lu Xingyue back then was naturally not something ordinary people could imagine, and Li Yong lost the upper hand after only a dozen rounds of fighting. Looking at the gun in Gao Dingbian's hand again, each shot is faster than the other, and the tip of the gun is like a repeating crossbow that shoots out. Each shot went straight to Li Yong's vital point, Li Yong was forced to hurry, the gun in his hand was only slightly slower for half a moment, and Gao Dingbian's gun had pierced his lower abdomen.

The tip of the gun pierced the armor and plunged directly into Li Yong's abdomen, and a sharp pain made Li Yong wake up: Even if he dies, he will pull the high-end side as a backpad! He grabbed the handle of the gun with his left hand, and stabbed the gun with his right hand towards the side! At the moment when the tip of the gun was about to stab Gao Dingbian's throat, a cold light flashed, and Li Yong's gun and his right arm flew into the air!

Li Yong's eyes widened as he looked at the sword in Gao Dingbian's hand.

"My brother's trick of abandoning the gun and drawing the knife is really practical!" Gao Ding waved the sword in his hand as he spoke.

Li Yong only saw the sky and the ground tumbling in front of him several times in a row. Then he fell heavily into the mud, and his body was still sitting on the horse in front of him, Li Yong opened his mouth to say something, but he only let out a breath. At this time, the field of vision gradually narrowed, and the endless darkness enveloped it.

Li Yong's death essentially announced the destruction of the Goryeo army, and the Goryeo army, which had lost its commander, was divided and surrounded by the Tiger Guard Battalion. Eat it bite by bite. In this battle, the Goryeo army was completely wiped out, and more than 27,000 people were killed in the battle. Fewer than 200 people escaped by swimming. The elite of Li Chenghui's Western Route Army was almost exhausted in this battle, which was an outcome that neither side of the battle had ever imagined. However, this result greatly affected the course of the whole war, and Chang Miao originally estimated that the war would drag on until the winter or even the beginning of the spring of the following year, but the course was greatly shortened by this unexpected victory.

There is also a rumor about this battle, that is, it is said that four or five thousand members of the Goryeo army finally surrendered, but they were killed by Wang Hanxin. Regarding this rumor, the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion and the cavalry deployed by the parties were all silent, so it is not very likely that it came out of their mouths, but it is more likely that it came out of the sailors and soldiers at sea. However, in response to everyone's suspicion of Wang Hanxin, Gao Dingbian resolutely denied it, saying that the Goryeo army resisted very heroically, and in the end all of them died heroically, not like the rumors that someone surrendered, and those people may not have seen the fighting situation of the besieged Goryeo people at all.

As a result of this unexpected victory, Li Cheng of Anzhou City caused irreparable losses, and he not only lost most of the elite troops in his hands, but also lost his eldest son Li Yong.

However, Li Chenghui did not know about this at the time, and he tried his best to dispatch the troops in his hand to resist Chang Miao's attack, trying to delay the time and wait for Li Yong to eliminate the Huwei battalion and return to Anzhou City to help.

In the next two days, Li Chenghui's subordinates fought hard. The recruits who lacked the backbone strength would have been wiped out by Chang Miao's Liaodong Army long ago if it weren't for relying on the walled city. Even so, six of the fifteen defensive strongholds in the north of Anzhou City were lost, and the remaining nine were also divided by the Liaodong Army and were being attacked in turn, and the flames of war had burned to the walls of Anzhou City.

In this regard, Adjutant General Lu Xuan suggested that the elite troops deployed on the coastline should be recalled immediately, since the Tiger Guard Battalion has gone ashore, then there is little point in leaving these troops in place, rather than leaving this part of the troops vacant there, it is better to leave the liaison soldiers and transfer the remaining troops back to Anzhou City, then the total number of these troops is more than 10,000 people, which can greatly improve the ratio of troops in Anzhou City.

Li Chenghui hesitated and agreed to Lu Xuan's proposal. Although he was still a little worried that the Tiger Guard Battalion might escape because of this, but at the moment that Anzhou City was in danger, he could no longer scruple about the problem of completely annihilating the Tiger Guard Battalion. But he never expected Li Yong to lose.

When Li Yong's troops were defeated and the news of Li Yong's death reached Anzhou City, Li Chenghui almost fainted on the spot, and Lu Xuanyan quickly supported Li Chenghui in time. It was not easy for Li Chenghui to come to his senses, and after he sobered up, he immediately asked, "How many Li Yong's troops are left?" ”

"About two hundred." The herald said tremblingly.

Li Chenghui closed his eyes tightly and sighed, "How can this be? How so! ”

In fact, not only Li Chenghui couldn't accept this reality, but even Lu Xuan couldn't believe it. But when he inquired in detail about the whole thing, Lu Xuan had to accept this cruel reality. Looking at the veteran half-lying in the handsome chair, Lu Xuan felt that he didn't know how to speak, but he had to ask the old man who had just lost his son: "My lord, are you considering asking for help from White Wolf Mountain?" (To be continued......)